dubious pleasure

"To what do I owe this dubious pleasure, after all these months?"

I have never denied any woman the dubious pleasure of watching me eat.

He would not even be allowed the dubious pleasure of being a Government statistic.

A dubious pleasure because Jack, as in most of his activities, was unpredictable.

But you will endure these dubious pleasures only if you're able to get tickets.

Finding it out in person was a dubious pleasure.

"I had the dubious pleasure of chatting with Braddock," she said.

He got to within fifteen feet while you yourself were off in pursuit of dubious pleasures."

You have the dubious pleasure of looking upon an individual particle of dark matter itself."

"The things I do for family," he muttered balefully, and resigned himself to an evening of dubious pleasure.

We parents also have the dubious pleasure of 'getting acquainted' while funds are earned for the school.

No one concentrates the mind better than Beckett on the splendidly dubious pleasures of being there.

In effect, they blinded themselves to the ozone hole, leaving to the British, down on the ground, the dubious pleasure of discovering it.

I am left to the dubious pleasures of IE6.

Along with the rest of the fortunate souls who have the dubious pleasure of being Guardians.

- leaving aside the far more dubious pleasures of motherhood and keeping house.'

I sat down, bought a pitcher, and mostly got the dubious pleasure of listenin' to myself think.

Not even once in all the time he'd had the dubious pleasure of working for her had he seen her crack a genuine smile.

I have the dubious pleasure of having Penelope Stevenson to dinner this evening.'

Unlike many groups, The Wedding Present largely avoided the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye.

So you're the poor fellow who's got the dubious pleasure of getting me safely to my destination?' '

His life shattered, he now has the dubious pleasure of knowing that, for some 20 minutes, he was the star of a television reality entertainment.

"Um, well, I've never had the dubious pleasure of actually meeting an Akerian, if that's what you mean."

'It would seem, the dubious pleasure of spending time with a shrewish and ill-tempered woman,' he told her.

That gave her the dubious pleasure of an advanced look at the approaching horde, and a horde it was.